Desperate and Illegal: University Sends Out E-mail Urging Students and Staff to Vote for Dems

From the Winston-Salem Journal article by Wesley Young (via Drudge):

"Some 6,400 staffers and students at Winston-Salem State University received e-mail exhortations Monday to take advantage of early voting and help the Democratic Party, setting off local Republicans.

"After a complaint by Nathan Tabor, the chairman of the Forsyth County GOP, university officials acknowledged that the e-mail — sent from the student-affairs division — was improper.

"The university cited a state law that prohibits the use of a state employee’s authority or state property to support or oppose a person or an issue in any election.

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"The university said it would try to discover who sent out the e-mail and whether it was sent intentionally or accidentally in a partisan form."

LOL. I love that last line. School officials will get right on the case to determine if somebody "accidentally" sent out a partisan e-mail. The only accident that happened there was that the GOP stumbled upon the e-mail so quickly.

I wish the article had printed the e-mail... probably fear-mongering at its finest.